1987-09-10 - Console (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1987-09-10 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
1987-09-10 - Church exterior (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2007-05-30 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Installed behind Hook & Hastings facade: twin six-sectional facades arranged: 5-5-5-5-5-5 (cross) 5-5-5-5-5-5. -Database Manager
2007-08-22 - Updated through online information from Tim Lett. -- Some revoicing/restoration performed by Randall Dyer in 1999 due to fire in building. Sanctuary seats approximately 1,000. Church membership is currently 200 with 60 regular Sunday attendees. -Database Manager
2021-12-24 - I drove to the church in November 2021. News had come from the media that the building had been determined to be uninhabitable. I found a few people walking around outside the building and I stopped to ask if they knew what was going on in the building. The three people were the minister of the church, the District Superintendent and a Trustee of the Holston Conference. I told them that I was a former organist of this church and they invited me in to see what was happening. The building is currently being rehabilitated and is once again open. I was able to play the Moller but much of it was not working. The Swell division was about the only portion of the organ that was playable. The Great, Choir and Pedal divisions have some switch problems. The pipe chambers were in pretty good condition with no water damage. I was told that a local organ builder (Randall Dyer) had been brought in to determine what it would take to make the instrument playable once again. Randall had done work on this instrument in 1999 after a fire in the building. Apparently they plan to restore the instrument. While this is not a large instrument (23 ranks) that occupies a room that seats about 1,200 I always found the instrument had plenty of plenty to fill the room. -Timothy Lett
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Knoxville, Tennessee
Magnolia Avenue Methodist Church
Möller Op. 9531 1961 3/23
GREAT CHOIR
8' Diapason 61 8' Gedeckt 61
8' Bourdon 61 8' Erzähler 61
4' Octave 61 4' Koppelflöte 61
2' Waldflöte 61 2 2/3' Nazard 61
III Fourniture 183 2' Blockflöte 61
Sub 8' Cromorne 61
Unison Off Tremulant
Super Sub
Chimes (pf) Unison Off
Super
SWELL Harp (pf)
16' Rohrgedeckt 61
8' Rohrflöte 12 PEDAL
8' Viole de Gambe 61 16' Bourdon 32 (1-18 wood)
8' Viole Celeste 49 16' Rohrgedeckt SW
4' Nachthorn 61 8' Principal 32
III Plein Jeu 183 8' Bourdon 12
8' Trompette 61 8' Rohrflöte SW
Tremulant 8' Viole de Gambe SW
Sub 4' Octave 12
Unison Off 4' Bourdon 12
Super 2' Octavin 12
16' Bass Trumpet 12 SW
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